Animal Farm by George Orwell
24th April - 11th May 2024 | Adapted by Van Badham
United Reformed Church, Summertown, Oxford
‘He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.”
We’re delighted to welcome you to George Orwell’s classic political fable in an adaptation bristling with satire. The animals have thrown off their human oppressors, but a new political elite are rising, and want to make Animal Farm ‘great again’. But at what cost? Join us for a riotous retelling of this timeless novel featuring Creation’s rep company.
“how easily totalitarian propaganda can control the opinion of enlightened people in democratic countries”
– George Orwell, Preface to the Ukrainian edition of Animal Farm, 1947.
Animal Farm is adapted by award-winning playwright and political commentator, Van Badham.
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